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I Had A Great Meeting With Michigan's Attorney General's Office But...
Michigan, like every other state, criminalizes subornation of perjury, witness tampering and coercion committed by anyone upon anyone else. The state also criminalizes aiding and abetting any of these crimes. There are no exceptions in Michigan criminal law for government officials, whether foreign or domestic. Nor are there exceptions if the crimes are committed while "official duties" are purportedly being performed. In Doreen's case, of course, no actual "official duties" were involved at all. The crimes themselves were the objects of the acting officials. For instance, the subornation of perjury was itself the purported "official act" conducted when orders were issued attempting to control Doreen's testimony. Everything done to Doreen has always been pure crime, committed under the mere "color of law". A selection of Michigan statutes criminalizing coercion of false testimony can be seen here. As can be seen by a review of those statutes, what has been done to Doreen is a slam-dunk smorgasbord of blatant felonies in violation of Michigan law. I WILL ADMIT THAT FOR ME this approach to seeking justice for the criminal assaults on Doreen seemed a stretch. Not that it lacked anything in theory, mind-- indeed, the principle involved is about as straightforward as they come. In fact, the principle involved here is among the most basic in our American system of government overall: federalism. This is the division of power in this country into coexisting and competing (therefore countervailing) forces, with the feds holding the states accountable when they are abusive to citizens (something we are all very familiar with) and the states doing the same to the feds in return (something we see very little, but only because it has gone out of fashion, not because it isn't the way things are supposed to work). Here is how this was put by Alexander Hamilton, while striving to get the Constitution ratified in New York 1788: This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them. Nonetheless, I expected something of a "Huh? You've got to be kidding!" reaction from the state. Instead, there was no head-scratching or bemusement at all. Very gratifying. AND AS IT TURNED OUT, just show. I've heard nothing from Schuette's office since that meeting. My inquiry a month or so after the meeting was met with a request for patience, and now two-and-a-half more more months have passed. That's bad enough, but one of the many folks who wrote to Schuette's office on behalf of this initiative DID finally get an "answer': a ridiculous blow-off to the effect that complaints about judges should be taken to the judicial tenure commission. Here it is:
This is a pathetic dereliction of duty. |
ON
THURSDAY, MAY 12,
I HAD WHAT SEEMED TO BE AN EXCELLENT HOUR-LONG MEETING with Carter Bundy, a representative of
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. The subject was the
investigation and possible prosecution of the federal judges and
DOJ attorneys who have committed
